How to Recover Deleted or Lost Photos from Samsung Galaxy/Note

Mobile camera enables us to record our life anytime and anywhere. Beautiful scenery, happy moments with family and friends, novelties on the trips, etc. can be well stored in our phones. However, have you ever faced the trouble of deleting your photos accidentally? Have you ever suffered from the regret of losing precious photos? Are you looking forward to an ideal software which can help you retrieve deleted pictures from Samsung Galaxy S4/S5/S6/S7?

How Does Samsung Galaxy Phone Store Photos?

In order to understand how the program can recover the deleted photos on the phone, we'd better take a brief look at how Samsung galaxy S5 store Photos. Photos on our phones are stored in the SD or Memory card. Many people supposed that once the photos are deleted, the photos can no longer exist. However, deletion that people normally do on their phones just let the system to modify the file a location table to release the file of space. In fact, the electronic data of the photo is still stored in the data area. When you perform the deletion action, the data will not be cleared in a real sense, they still exist in the phone in another form. The photo will be truly deleted when new data is written to covered the old data. Recovery of photos can be done before new data is written.

It is well known that there are many reasons lead to the data lost, incorrect operation, restoring factory settings, damaged or broken phone, flashing ROM, rooting, etc. But the actual contents of the file are still physically present on the internal storage, until overwritten by new data and can be recovered using android recovery tools. Android Data Recovery program is a user-friendly data recovery program to help you directly scan the memory card or internal memory and recover the deleted or lost photos from Samsung galaxy S3/4/5 or Note without damaging the original and current data.

Tutorial: How to Recover Deleted Photos on Samsung Galaxy S5/S6/S7

Step 1 Plug Your Samsung Phone to PC

Firstly. Download, install and run the Samsung Galaxy Photo Recovery on your computer. You will be prompted to connect the phone to computer. Then correctly connect your Samsung Galaxy to the computer with a USB cable. It will be easily done.

Step 2 Enable USB Debugging before Scanning

USB debugging in Android allows you to connect your phone with the computer and use the Android SDK with it, and allow the program to access and scan the phone. If you don't know what USB debugging is, you probably have not enabled it. Follow the detailed steps to manually enable USB debugging for your Android. If you don't enable USB debugging, then the program will fail to recognize your phone.

Step 3 Allow Superuser Request and Scan Your Samsung Galaxy

There will be a dialog box pops up ask for your permission to start the scanning process on a rooted phone. Just press "OK"w on your Android until it does not show up again. click the "Start" button in the screen below to scan your Samsung Galaxy for deleted files. Before doing this, make sure that your phone battery is charged more than 20%.

Step 3 Select the Data Type You Want to Recover and Scan Mode

To save the whole scanning time and spend up the scanning the process, the program provides checkbox for targeted scanning, this is where you select file types, for lost photos, you're allowed to only check Gallery. And select one of the modes. Standard mode is recommended in here.

Step 5 Preview and Selectively Recover Pictures from Samsung Phone

It will take a few minutes to finish the whole scanning process based on the size of the data. After scanning, all of lost photos will be organized in a tree structure with the name, size, deleted time. Pictures are ready to be checked. Tick in the corresponding boxes or simply choose them all. Finally, click "Recover" button to save the deleted photos on computer.

This Samsung Data Recovery is equipped with comprehensive functions, advanced data recovery technology and user-friendly interface; it can be definitely an ideal choice for your Samsung galaxy device. It can detect your phone model and scan your phone quickly and automatically. And also scan memory CARDS, mobile phone SD card very fast. If you have mastered the operating essentials, you'll never worry about the troubles caused by accidental data deletion and you will not get dumbfounded when you encounter that sort of thing.

Warning:
1. Stop using your phone right away, otherwise the original deleted data will overwritten by the new created data, it means it will makes the recovery harder.
2. Make sure that your device is left with power of over 20% so that it won't shut down during the process.